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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A72376	The soules possession of Christ: shewing how a Christian should put on Christ, and bee able to doe all things through his strength. Whereunto in annexed A sermon preached at the funerall of that worthy divine Mr. Wimott, late minister of Clare, in Suffolke. By T.H.	Hooker, Thomas, 1586-1647.; Hooker, Thomas, (1586-1647). Spiritual Munition: a funeral sermon.	1638 (1638)	STC 13734; ESTC S125041	45,018	247

in God affect and cleave to these Let the rout of drunkards and all gracelesse miscreants incourage one another in their base courses and extoll those that worke most mischiefe among them Never let thy soul enter into these mens secrets but beg of GOD that the Saints which excell may bee the onely excellent ones in thy thoughts and esteeme As this blessed man here did O my father my father Wherein we might further observe That the losse of a faithfull Minister is a matter of great mourning and lamentation But I leave that and come now to the commendation of Elijah The Charrets of Israel and the horsemen thereof These words Charrets and horsemen are spoken by way of similitude and doe figuratively demonstrate the defence and protection of Israel For in ancient times they went to warre with iron Charrets and those were counted most strong that had most of these therefore the hearts of the children of Israel were daunted when they perceived that the Canaanits had iron Charrets Horses are warlike creatures of great strength as both our owne and former times have experienced Some trust in Charrets and some in horse-men saith David The like we may reade Iudg. 4.3 The point that I would commend from hence is Doct. 3. That faithfull Ministers are the defenders of States Churches and Common-wealths God biddeth Elijah 2 Kings 19. 2 King 19.16 to anoint Iehu King over Israel and Elisha to bee Prophet in his roome and it is observable that when the sword of Iehu and his Army did not hit then the sword of Elisha prevailed his prayers wrought a greater slaughter among the enemies then all their weapons of warre could doe The Reasons hereof are foure Faithfull Ministers Reas 1. by their fervent prayers and supplications stop the wrath and indignation of the Lord and so keepe back judgement from us Numb 16.48 as Moses stood in the gappe Nay they doe not onely turne away Gods anger and displeasure from a land or people but are a meanes oftentimes of bringing it upon the adversaries of goodnesse 2 King 1.10 Take heed therefore of wronging a praying Minister You know David besought the Lord that hee would confound the policy of Achitophel 2 Sam. 15.31 and his request was granted Prayer is of great force It will bring punishment upon a man and hee shall not know who hurt him Againe 2. Faithfull Ministers reveale the sinnes of the people with whom they live and labour to worke them to humiliation and godly repentance that they may turn unto the Lord which is the ready course to turne away judgements O brethren wee feare the sword we may justly doe so But let mee tell you It is not the weaknesse of our Land nor the power of the enemy that can so much hurt us as our treacherous hearts at home These swarmes of unruly lusts and corruptions which wee carry about in our breasts and harbour in our bosomes daily doe us more hurt then all the world besides Our sins are they which lay us open to Gods judgements more than any thing else Now a faithfull Minister indeavours to turne away sinne and so by consequence the wrath of God incensed thereby from a place It is a great deale of good that a Samuel may doe 1 Sam. 7.3 By this the hearts of men are made willing to yeeld obedience to the Governours that are set over them 3. it makes men studious of Gods honour faithfull to their Religion and Countrey industrious in doing good in their places and strict with their GOD in all conditions and relations whatsoever This brings men to be blessings in the Stations wherein GOD hath set them to live desired and die lamented 2 Chron. 20.20 Whilest Iehoiada lived wee reade how all things prospered the Gospell that flourished and piety was advanced thorowout the Kingdome but when hee died his sonne fell quickly to abominable and wicked courses and the Lord soone overthrew him his Kingdome and all So that that which makes men loyall and true hearted and hinders the overflowing scourge from seazing upon a Nation that must needs bee the defence of that Nation for it is a certaine truth hee that is disloyall to the King of heaven can never bee loyall to the king of earth This putteth courage into the hearts of people 4. sinfull and base courses fill a man with continuall feares and discouragements 2 Chron. 15.2 The Lord is with us whilest wee cleave to him but if we forsake him hee will for sake us It is wonderful to see what a good Minister can do in a good warre how he can fight against Principalities and powers and spirituall wickednesses in high places not fearing the face of man The clear knowledge of this that the battell hee fights is the Lords assures him that the Lord will fight for him Any coward will fight when hee is assured of victory beforehand A good cause will make men spend their dearest blood When a man hath God to goe before him and the word to warrant him in what he doth he goes through thicke and thin we see with what joy and cheerefulnesse the Martyrs sacrificed their lives to the flames This shews Vse 1. that those which are enemies to Gods faithfull Ministers are the greatest adversaries that the Church or State hath for they spoile the Munition of the Land If a man should take away all the Munition of England and transport it into Spaine every man will say he is a Traitour So if thou hast set thy selfe to oppose and secretly undermine any that is a true faithfull Minister of Jesus Christ know thou art a Traitour to thy King and Countrey because thou persecutest him who labours in his place to keepe back wrath from seazing upon the Land Bee humbled therefore take notice of this crying sinne and let it not bee once named amongst you as becommeth Christians So much for the Text now a word or two Of the Occasion If I should say no more nay if I had said nothing at all the Example here present would bee a visible interpretation of this Text the very Carcase standing before you makes good the truth that I have now delivered Hee is dead we shall be so let us live as he did that we may enjoy the end of our hope as no doubt hee fully doth Brethren while he lived here hee was a Father in our Israel not for yeares but for grace It is not continuance of time but ripenes of parts that makes a man Ancient And though hee be departed yet that dead trunck speaketh unto us and the dead body saith Though the inhabitant bee gone it once caried about it a holy life a sincere heart an unspotted conversation Nay I may adde further hee was a Charret and Horse-man of Israel Hee was in the forefront of the battell a maine defender of the faith of Christ Witnesse brethren the heart-breaking sighes and earnest prayers

on Christ Answ The meanes to put on Christ they are three especially 1. Wee must put off something 1 and bee uncloathed before we can be cloathed upon Now there are two things to be put off First put off all thy bosome abominations Put off all sinnes and all those menstrous clothes which Esay speakes of we must not listen after our own lusts nor be carryed away by the power of corruption though temptation within comes and occasions without arise bee not overswayed to any sinne For by these meanes you withdraw your selves from the assistance of the Lord Jesus and his Spirit cannot take any place in your hearts his grace will not worke because you set sinne on worke Therefore let us put off all our darling lusts and corruptions and wheÌ„ we have casheered them wee shall be fit to receive grace The Angell spake to Ioshua Zach 3.3 4. Put off thy filthy garments and I will give thee change of raimeÌ„t that is abundance of grace to carry thee on in a good course If wee live in the spirit Gal. 5.25 26. let us walke in the spirit How is that Let us not be desirous of vain glory provoking one another and envying one another As if hee had said If you listen to pride and vain-glory you cannot walke in the spirit Christ Jesus must bee next the heart hee will not give you outward honours and the like that you may keepe your secret lusts No no grace and Christ must bee nearest the soule of all The second thing that must be put off is this 2 We must deny our selves we must renounce our selves What is that Wee must renounce all sufficiency and ability that is in us that wee may bee under the power and assistance of the Spirit He that will trust to himselfe and his owne ability never can nor shall receive any such supply of grace from Christ to strengthen him as otherwise God would give and hee might enjoy therefore the Apostle wisheth Oh that I might bee found in him Phil. 3.9 not having mine own righteousnesse Before Paul boasted that he was a Pharisee If any man saith hee hath whereof hee might rejoyce much more I circumcised the eight day of the kindred of Israel and the like He had a gay coate and he was marvellously proud of it but when the Lord Christ came to save him he rent it all in peeces hee counted his former garments and all his furniture as nothing and cast all under his feet No souldier puts two Helmets on his head at once and no man weares two shooes on one foot It is pretty to consider it even in nature as it is with a boate that stands partly upon the streame and partly upon the ground so long as it is thus the streame cannot carry it but commit the boat wholy to the streame and then it glides along easily So it is with our souls while wee rest partly upon Christ and partly upon our owne strength and what our parts and wit can doe the power of our Lord Jesus Christ will never carry us nor enable us so chearefully to goe on in a Christian course as otherwise wee might doe It is true the Lord hath given us power to doe what hee requires but the first moving of grace is not in our selves the Fountaine is in Christ and to him we must first goe and from him have our graces supplyed and strengthened Here is the cause why many a Christian finding himselfe weake and his corruptions strong is much daunted because hee lookes onely to himselfe and when any temptation stirres and his lusts move presently hee begins to quarrell with his owne heart and saith Never any man had such a heart as I have by which meanes he is more troubled than before and pores only upon his sins whereas hee should goe to Christ for grace Sinne in our soules is too hard and strong for the power that is in our selves but it is not too hard for the grace that is in Christ hee is the fountaine of holinesse and if we looke to our selves wee goe to a wrong place as a child though hee have life in him yet he cannot walk except his father lead him so we are all such children even the best of Gods people though we have some grace yet Christ must quicken us by his Spirit and raise us up and support us by his grace and then wee can walke chearfully This is the reason why many a poore weake Christian walkes comfortably and sweetly when many an old stander fals often because when an old Christian hath gotten a little wisedome and grace hee thinkes then hee can goe of himselfe and then his peace is forgotten and therefore many times the Lord withdraws his Spirit and here he fals into this sinne and that sinne gets the upper hand of him whereas a poore soule that seeth his owne weaknesse and mournes under it seekes earnestly to Christ that hee would raise up his heart and that hee would strengthen him with his grace and this man walkes chearfully While little children are under the Nurse they never fall but are safe enough but when they are gone from the Nurse then here they fall and there they fall sometime into the fire sometime into the water So it is with us while wee goe into the hands of Christ and look for grace from him all this while though never so feeble in our selves we receive much strength and succour from above but when wee begin to trust to our selves say What need we looke up to Christ now God hath enlightned us and pardoned our sinnes and given us grace now we can goe of our selves then we fall most shamefully then we are much distempered and lose all our peace and all our assistance from Christ Suppose a childe and old man bee swimming the childe that knowes how to doe it he commits himselfe to the Streame and so he swims easily but the strong man thinkes hee can doe it of himselfe and so he strikes with his foot and will not suffer the water to carry him he stands with one foot on the ground and strikes the water with the other this is not swimming but going till at last hee sinkes and is drowned So it is with a poore soule when hee commits himselfe to the streame of Gods grace hee goes on comfortably in a Christian course but when wee rest upon our own ability and on what we can doe the Spirit of grace doth not carry us nor the promise ever assist us and how can wee then subsist Ier. 10.23 for it is not in man to direct his owne wayes S. Paul saith I live and yet not I but Christ liveth in mee That is I must first bee as dead in my selfe before I can live in Christ so should every childe of God say It is not I that have zeale and quickening of my selfe it must bee given me from above The second

to master them take thou away the inquity of thy servant free my soule from the dominion of these lusts teare them from mee doe what thou wilt with mee onely slay this corruption in thy servant Thus a gracious heart seekes nothing so much as the death of sinne that there might be a new nature and through-change wrought in him therefore hee argues thus Lord thou hast said that thou wilt take away the heart of stone thou hast promised to subdue a stubborne spirit and master a malicious vaine minde I beseech thee let it be according to thy good Word take away these distempers as thou art faithfull say Amen to the desires of thy servant and help me against my strong corruptions When the truth of Christ layes battery against a good mans heart the soule willingly lies under the blow and closeth with the rebuke saying more of the Lord there againe good Lord. A man that is troubled with the tooth-ach when the Tooth-drawer comes to apply his Instrument and hee findes hee hath hold of him he saith that is it pull it out leave nothing behinde So when the soule is under the power of some violent lust when the Word comes home to the conscience and meets with that distemper the soule saith Lord pull it out all that I may never see that pride more nor that covetousnesse more leave not a stumpe remaining Lord but free me wholly from this vile accursed condition It is a fine passage Zach. 13. one meetes him and askes him Zach. 13.6 Where hadst thou that wound It was wounded in the house of my friend saith hee the messenger of God spake friendly to me he wounded my heart fully I saw the coare comming out and this is a speciall meanes of divorcing the heart from sinne when it closeth with such truths as tend to the awaking of it But this is not all 6. For as the soule wisheth and welcomes such powerfull truths 6 so is it restlesse till GOD be pleased to worke this till it see every corruption and the frame of every sinne tottered It is restlesly looking and waiting upon God Oh when shall this once be Such a mans heart is broken such a wretched liver is reclaimed and such a proud spirit is brought low Lord will nothing prevaile with me The Irish-man being malicious and fearfull never thinkes his enemy killed till he hath cut off his head he will bee sure to leave him past all hope of recovery So a gracious heart never thinkes sinne mastered till it see the very life and blood of his corruptions removed till it see the streÌ„gth and power of sinne subdued more or lesse within him Therefore it is that the Apostle cries out O wretchedmaÌ„ that I am who shall deliver me from this body of death Marke the waight of his complaint he doth not say who shal deliver me from this action of sinne but who shall deliver me from this body of sinne There is a body of pride there is a body covetousnesse and a body of anger which cleaves unto us Now a gracious heart is not content to be delivered from a tongue of pride haughty speeches and the like but Lord free mee from the body of pride and selfe-love from the frame and bent of this distempered spirit 7. Lastly 7 as the soule welcomes the truth that it may worke and is restlesse before it doe work so it is content that the Lord should bee pleased to worke upon sinne and subdue it upon the hardest termes in the world I remember the speech of a wise man having a cause in law that was like to bee out-bidden hee comes to his Lawyer and asks May such a thing be done who answered the thing may be accomplished it is possible why then said he let me have it done what ever it costs me So say thou Lord though I had as much pride as the devill I may bee humbled though I bee over-spred with sin as with a leprosie I may bee purged from my filthinesse It may be done Lord let it be done what ever it cost me If a man be covetous and if nothing but beggery will loose his heart from the world he ought to pray for a low estate and contentednesse with his condition If a man be unable to subdue the pride of his spirit there is no other way sometime to cure a man of this Timpany but with a desperate extremity there is no way to cure a proud heart but to blow upon its excellencies and lay all its honour in the dust This is harsh yet a gracious heart is content though it bee never so sharpe and cost never so deare though I bee the off-scouring of the world slighted and trampled upon by every one though I lie in the dust all my dayes and goe to the bottomelesse pit for the while I care not any thing rather than a proud heart Though I lose my parts and abilities am never so much loaden with disgraces free me from a lofty spirit and I care not This man now meanes in good earnest to part with his corruptions But what shall wee thinke of those that are content rather to part with their blood and lives than with their base corruptions I mean the prophane wretches of this age that are so sarre from being divorced from their sins that they are not willing to heare thereof or to have the Minister meddle therewith they will not endure the least reproofe to come neare them or touch them no meanes can prevaile to tear their distempers from their soules to plucke the cup from the drunkard or the pleasure from the Adulterer or greedinesse of gaine from the covetous worldling but upon the opposition to their lusts they are up in armes presently A man must beware how hee meddles with these things they will take away a mans credit and his life many times rather than they will suffer their corruptions to be removed by the power of the Word Iohn Baptist must rather lose his head than Herod his incestuous adultery Nay the league betweene these men and their lusts is so firme that they will not heare of any breach When the Prophet came early and late admonishing the people This is the good way Ier. 18.12 walke in it marke how they resolve We will walke in our owne wayes and follow our owne devices and as they resolved so they did for when he enformed them of their wicked courses and would have pluckt away their beloved corruptioÌ„s They tooke hold upon their deceits saith the Text the phrase is strange Here is all the quarrell in the world betweene Gods faithfull Ministers and the people we come to pluck away your sinnes wee would pull downe a proud heart and subdue an unclean lascivious spirit but you take hold of your lusts you cling unto pride and will not part with it you nourish malice and hypocrisic in your soules in despight of God and his Ministers and all admonitions and

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